thursday february 13 Anti-Film Festival: For those who’ve had their fill of premiere parties and Top 40 soundtracks, Alliance Film/ Video Co-op offers a little art from emerging and experimental filmmakers and video artists. The fourth annual low-budget-film celebration at the Alliance Cinema (927 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach) and the…
thursday february 6 Miami Film Festival: The fourteenth annual Miami Film Festival continues its dominion over the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts (174 E. Flagler St.) tonight at 7:00 p.m. with American director Greg Mottola’s The Daytrippers and at 9:30 p.m. with Argentine director Mario Benedetti’s Wake Up, Love…
thursday january 30 Miami RV Show: Consider it an anthropological expedition to a nomadic culture in which the highest value is attached to mobility (with comfort running a close second). It’s the wonderful world of recreational vehicles, as celebrated by the first annual Miami RV Show, taking place this weekend…
thursday january 23 Classical Jazz Festival: The New World Symphony continues its celebration of classical music influenced by American jazz with a concert tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre (555 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach). Artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas not only conducts but makes a rare appearance as…
thursday january 16 Jack and Jill: Florida Shakespeare Theatre explores love in the Nineties in this sexy and sly romantic comedy about complex currents of marriage and divorce. FTS artistic director Juan F. Cejas and actress Susanne Kreitman star as a couple who meet, mate, get dysfunctional, break up, make…
thursday january 9 Festival of Chefs: Lick your lips and indulge your appetite when twenty chefs from some of South Florida’s finest restaurants cross spatulas tonight at 6:00 p.m. at the Sky Lobby of International Place (100 SE Second St.) to benefit the Easter Seal Society. A media-celebrity panel –…
thursday january 2 Miami Heat: Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway, and the rest of the Heat stars take on those wicked New Jersey Devils tonight at 7:30 at the Miami Arena (721 NW First Ave.). As of this writing, the Heat were 21-7 (ranking at the top of their division) and…
thursday december 26 Beauty and the Beast: The Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts (1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) becomes an ice rink tonight at 8:00 as the Russian All-Stars Ice Theatre presents an ice-ballet version of the classic tale Beauty and the Beast. Choreographed by skating coach Tatiana…
thursday december 19 The Chocolate Nutcracker: A holiday classic gets a flavorful treatment as Buffalo Soldier Productions presents the East Coast premiere of LaVerne Reed’s Chocolate Nutcracker at the Dade County Auditorium (2901 W. Flagler St.). This version of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, featuring the music of Duke Ellington and starring Bianca…
thursday december 12 1997 World Gold Gymnastics Tour: The Olympics are now a not-so-distant summer memory, but the fever (or the hype) lives on. Gold medalist Kerri Strug and silver medalist Jair Lynch, along with veteran Olympians Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner, are among the elastic gymnastics stars descending on…
thursday december 5 Orquideas a la Luz de la Luna (Orchids in the Moonlight): The 3rd Street Black Box (in the San Villa Oriental Restaurant, 230 NE Third St.) collaborates with Peru’s Jucare Theater Group to perform Carlos Fuentes’s play about two sultry Mexican film stars and the impact of…
Ed Matus loves spreading discord. As the guitarist, vocalist, and one of the primary lyricists for Subliminal Criminal, Matus injects a reckless kind of humor into the dissonant, aggressively subversive, and, yes, discordant music the Miami band creates. Matus and his cohorts — bassist-vocalist Anthony Ferry-Lucas and drummer Kris King…
thursday november 28 White Party Week: If you haven’t already bought those $125 tix to Sunday’s big White Party at Villa Vizcaya (3251 S. Miami Ave.), you’re outta luck. But don’t despair: A bevy of social events has been structured around the bash, turning it into a five-day party extravaganza…
thursday november 21 Miami Book Fair International: The twelfth annual book fair continues its “Evenings With …” series tonight at Miami-Dade Community College’s Wolfson Campus Auditorium (300 NE Second Ave.) with author Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue Dress, Black Betty), reading from his latest novel A Little Yellow Dog…
Fall is the time for fashion, fashion, fashion — fashionable clothes, fashionable clubs, fashionable ideas. And what could be more fashionable than rock musicians? A bevy of such congregate tonight (Thursday) and for the following three nights at Rose’s Bar & Music Lounge (754 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 532-0228) to…
thursday november 14 New Vision Florida/Brazil: Tigertail Productions continues its second annual Florida/Brazil arts exchange festival this weekend with a number of dance and music concerts, lectures, and video screenings. First up is a dance lecture and video screening with Brazil’s premier dance writer and critic Helena Katz, who will…
thursday november 7 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival: The eleventh annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival opened last week but now goes into full swing with screenings at five locations around Broward County, mainly at Coral Ridge Theatre (3401 NE 26th Ave., Fort Lauderdale). Among the films making their world…
John Mellencamp Mr. Happy Go Lucky (Mercury) When I first met John Mellencamp nearly fifteen years ago, he was a young buck awash in the success of Uh-Huh and its “Pink Houses” anthem, and on the verge of critical and commercial success with Scarecrow. But Mellencamp was already worrying about…
thursday october 31 Halloween Extravoodooganza: Lincoln Road (between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets in Miami Beach) celebrates Halloween by transforming into a haunted cemetery filled with tombstones and sarcophagi, an outdoor “Ghoul Town” art exhibition, and tons of creepy characters. From 3:30 to 5:30, costumed kids can stop at Lincoln Road…
Let me make a confession: I am a cryer. I hate to admit it, since I’d much rather come off as a stoic. Not one to shed many tears over my own small misfortunes, I’m an enthusiastic, empathetic cryer. Emotional reunions grab me by the tear ducts, as does heart-rending…
thursday october 17 Kiss of the Spider Woman: Argentine actress Sandra Guida steamed up the stage when she took on the role of Aurora/Spider Woman in the original Buenos Aires production of this Tony Award-winning musical. Tonight at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts (174 E. Flagler St.), Guida…
thursday october 10 Dream Supreme: Two American icons meet in the realm of the imagination as ART-ACT Productions (10 NE 39th St.) presents the touching comedy-love fantasy Dream Supreme. Saxman Leo Casino portrays jazz legend John Coltrane, who in the play idolizes Marilyn Monroe and purchases at auction the famous…
